• 2019 March 28 14:03

    COSCO SHIPPING Ports announces FY2018 results

    COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited, the world’s leading ports operator, has announced full year results of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Group”) for the year ended 31 December 2018.

    2018 Full-yearResults Highlight

    Revenue was US$1,000.4 million+57.6% yoy

    Cost of sales was US$706.7 million,mainly due to CSP Spain Group acquired in 2017

    Gross profit was US$293.7 million, +40.3% yoy

    Share of profits from JV and associates was US$292.5 million, + 23.6% yoy

    Adjusted net profit was US$324.6 million, +42.9% yoy

    Adjusted earnings per share was US10.58cents, +41.1% yoy

    Declared a final dividend of US$2.02 cents per share

    OPERATIONAL REVIEW

    Total throughput was 117,365,360 TEU, +17.1% yoy

    Organic growth of total throughput was 7.8%

    Total throughput from subsidiaries was 22,507,686 TEU, +29.7% yoy

    Total equity throughput was 37,062,172 TEU, +15.8% yoy

    During the year, throughput of the Group’s subsidiaries, becoming one driver of the business, increased by 29.7% to 22,507,686 TEU (2017: 17,353,422 TEU), made up 19.2% of the Group’s total. Throughput of QPI has been included since May 2017; excluding QPI, total throughput increased by 11.5% to 98,045,360 TEU on a comparable basis. Throughput of the non-controlling terminals rose by 14.5% to 94,857,674 TEU (2017: 82,848,763 TEU).

    During the year, synergies with Ocean Alliance and parent company were further strengthened; volume contributed by the OCEAN Alliance accounted for about 49.9% of total throughput of six major subsidiaries for the year, representing an increase of 33.7% compared with 2017.

    In 2018, throughput of the Greater China region increased by 13.8% to 92,597,126 TEU (2017: 81,361,521 TEU) for the year and made up 78.9% of the Group’s total. Bohai Rim The Bohai Rim region delivered strong growth, throughput soared by 35.7% to 38,328,815 TEU compared with last year’s 28,244,975 TEU; mainly because QPI has a year-full contribution in 2018 while last year only had 8-month.

    Throughput of the Yangtze River Delta region made up 16.9% of the Group’s total and increased by 0.9% to 19,808,646 TEU (2017: 19,630,693 TEU) for the year. Nantong Tonghai Terminal was inaugurated on 30 June 2018. With three container berths and one bulk berth, Nantong Tonghai Terminal delivered 264,255 TEU container throughput in its trial operation during the year.

    Throughput of the Southeast Coast region increased by 12.2% to 5,699,718 TEU (2017: 5,079,660 TEU). Xiamen Ocean Gate Terminal increased throughput by 31.2% to 1,968,613 TEU (2017: 1,501,001 TEU) for the year, mainly due to increased calls by the OCEAN Alliance.

    Performance of the Pearl River Delta region was rather weak compared with other regions in China, throughput of the region increased marginally by 1.3% to 27,388,896 TEU (2017: 27,049,188 TEU). Throughput of Yantian Terminal increased by 3.6% to 13,159,705 TEU compared with last year’s 12,703,733 TEU, while Hong Kong decreased by 6.6% compared with 2017, mainly due to competition from neighboringarea.

    Southwest Coast Operation scale of the Group in Southwest Coast remained small in the year, throughput of the region increased slightly by 1.0% to 1,371,051 TEU (2017: 1,357,005 TEU). Planned to enhance presence in the region, COSCO SHIPPING Ports took 4.34% stake in Beibu Gulf Port Co., Ltd. by subscribing shares in the company in December 2018.Overseas Performance of overseas terminals posed a strong growth in the year.

    With contributions from newly acquired terminals including the CSP SpainGroup and CSP Zeebrugge Terminal and the supports from shipping alliance sand parent company, throughput of the overseas portfolio increased by 31.5% to 24,768,234 TEU (2017: 18,840,664 TEU) for the year. The CSP Spain Group delivered throughput of 3,622,200 TEU and throughput of CSP Zeebrugge Terminal increased by 24.0% to 392,484 TEU compared with 316,448 TEU in 2017.

    Backed by the continuous support from the OCEAN Alliance and other shipping alliances, Piraeus Terminal achieved 19.4% growth in volume to 4,409,205 TEU (2017: 3,691,815 TEU) for the year. Added a new berth of one million TEU in January 2018, throughput of COSCO-PSA Terminal surged 56.5% to 3,198,874 TEU (2017: 2,044,536 TEU).

    In view of the strong demand in South East Asia and align with the Company’s strategy of strengthening presence in South East Asia, COSCO-PSA Terminal announced the launch of two new berths with about 2 million TEU in total in January 2019; with the launch of the two new berths, COSCO-PSA Terminal is equipped with five containerberths, increasing its annual handling capacity from 3 million TEU of the current three berths to about 5 million TEU. Abu Dhabi Terminal, the first overseas green-field subsidiary of the Company, will begin trial operations in April 2019 with 1.5 million TEU handling capacity to start with and will gradually ramping up the volume until the official operations scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2019.

    About COSCO SHIPPING Ports

    COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited, a world’s leading ports operator, with terminals portfolio covering the five main port regions in Mainland China, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. CSP operated and managed 283 berths at 36 ports worldwide, of which 192 were for containers, with a combined annual handling capacity of 106 million TEU. COSCO SHIPPING Ports has adopted "The Ports for ALL" as its mission and is working towards building a global terminal network with controlling stake that offers linkage effects on costs, services and synergies, a synergistic platform that offers mutual benefits to all in the shipping industry, connecting global routes and becoming truly "the ports for all people".


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